Egypt Centre, Swansea

This week I have been largely distracted by socks. I rather like making socks myself, then I saw this lecture by Anne Marie Decker and got ...

  The eight-pointed star is a common design on Egyptian textiles from the 4 th century AD, often composed of two superimposed squares combi...

A drop spindle tends to be a simple device, though there are variations. One of the most obvious differences is in how far the weight, the w...

Yes, the ancient Egyptians used it too! I have long wanted to dye with woad, having heard about how fabric soaked in woad changes colour whe...

Why didn't the ancient Egyptians commonly dye their most often used textile, linen? 1 I can't answer that here, but thinking throug...

  Archaeologists have historically divided time into the ages of "hard technology" with such terms as “Stone Age”, “Bronze Age” an...

As a person with little knowledge of textiles, but learning about them, I had assumed that the pictures such as that shown above, from a Mid...